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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:18:39 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

   I have sent out half a dozen DMCA takedown notifications today. Most of the software I release is under permissive licenses. Not all. 🙄

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:21:26 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     Nowadays I triple license most things 0BSD/CC0/MIT-0 which is basically "public domain, do what you want, I'm not responsible if it makes demons fly out your nose".

     Where I do not do this, it is because I have reasons, and I expect that to be respected.

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     Adam Katz :donor: (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 06:28:47 JST Adam Katz :donor:

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     @ryanc I recommend the Apache License 2.0 for this. It's a bit stronger wrt conferring protections regarding patents. The FSF even prefers it for this tier of FOSS:

     The Apache License 2.0 is the best non-copyleft license that does what a copyright license can to mitigate threats from software patents. It's a well-established, mature license that users, developers, and distributors alike are all comfortable with. You can tell it's important by the way that other free software licenses work to cooperate with it: the drafting processes for GPLv3 and the Mozilla Public License 2.0 named compatibility with the Apache License 2.0 as a goal from day one.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 18:12:24 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Adam Katz :donor:

     @adamhotep A disclaimer of patent rights in a license would place obligations on me.

     The point of the public domain equivalent license is that neither I nor the licensee have any obligations to the other.

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     Adam Katz :donor: (adamhotep@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 22:52:59 JST Adam Katz :donor:

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     @ryanc IANAL, but my understanding of the Apache License is that it simply ensures the underlying patents are freely available to the software's users; you can't yank out the rug. Yes, that might be a complication if you want to sell your related patent, as the new owner cannot retract the software's licence.